Psychology Press Urban Studies - ArticlesArticles, news, promotions and updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.en-us2015-03-31T16:28:14QCopyright (c) 2015, Psychology PressPsychology Presswebmaster@example.comtag:,2015:03:3155Featured Book: The Community Development Reader, 2etag:,2012:/articles/1.80412012-03-07T20:04:12Q2012-03-07T20:07:13Q"This updated anthology is a welcome addition for those who teach community development. It is a thorough and comprehensive treatment of the field that covers questions of practice and theory. A new section on globalization and contributions on sustainability make it the best single source for students of community development."

]]>Featured Book: Space, Place, and Violencetag:,2012:/articles/1.65352012-02-06T14:05:59Q2012-02-07T15:06:00Q
James A. Tyner's (Kent State University) Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically question both violent geographies and the geographies of violence.

With a focus on direct violence, this book situates violent acts within the context of broader political and structural conditions. Violence, it is argued, is both a social and spatial practice. Adopting a geographic perspective, Space, Place, and Violence provides a critical reading of how violence takes place and also produces place. Specifically, four spatial vignettes—home, school, streets, and community—are introduced, designed so that students may think critically how ‘race’, sex, gender, and class inform violent geographies and geographies of violence.

]]>Featured Book: Urban Theory Beyond the Westtag:,2012:/articles/1.77032012-02-03T15:08:14Q2012-02-07T15:25:16QUrban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters that raise theoretical issues about cities throughout the world.
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In Cities and Sexualities, Phil Hubbard uses case studies to demonstrate why sex matters in any understanding of urban life. This book puts queer theory in dialogue with spatial theory to explain how the city reproduces normative sexual orders.

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The fourth edition of this textbook features new chapters on urban world and politics, housing and Residential Segregation, and transport in cities; international case studies; new illustrations and tables; essay questions and project activities; and suggestions for further reading.

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In Spatial Regulation in New York City, ThemisChronopoulos examines the applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance policing. He argues that these initiatives deflected attention from the underlying causes of poverty and eroded civil rights while enabling real estate investment, high-end consumption, tourism, and corporate success.

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This collection of essays analyzes roles of ethnic entrepreneurs in the rise of ethnic neighborhoods as places of leisure and consumption.

]]>Distributed Urbanism, Book of the Month, December 2011tag:,2011:/articles/1.73952011-12-12T20:31:32Q2011-12-12T20:37:33QDistributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth explores the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, and examines the architectural practices that have emerged as a response
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Transitions to Sustainable Development oultlines the dynamics and governance of long-term change towards sustainable development.

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There has never before been a more authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core, foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design. The Companion to Urban Design serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and related fields.

]]>Featured Book: Automobility in Transition?tag:,2011:/articles/1.73962011-12-11T21:28:45Q2011-12-12T21:33:46QAutomobility in Transition? examines the evolution towards car-based forms of transport: problems associated with it; the success of efforts to deal with problems of pollution, congestion, and safety; and new developments, visions, and strategies.

]]>Featured Book: Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecologytag:,2011:/articles/1.51132011-12-01T17:37:36Q2011-12-01T17:19:37QThe Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, edited by Ian Douglas (University of Manchester), David Goode (University College London), Michael C. Houck (Greenspaces Institute), and Rusong Wang (Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences), contains fifty interdisciplinary contributions from leading academics and practitioners from across the world; these engaging entries provide students and practitioners with the wealth of interdisciplinary information needed to manage the biota and green landscapes in urban areas.

This book analyses biodiversity and complexity and provides the science to guide policy and management to make cities more attractive, more enjoyable, and better for our own health as well as the health of the planet. The Handbook is divided into six parts, dealing with the philosophies, concepts and history of urban ecology; followed by consideration of the biophysical character of the urban environment and the diverse habitats found within it. It then examines human relationships with urban nature, the health, economic and environmental benefits of urban ecology before discussing the methods used in urban ecology and ways of putting the science into practice.

The Handbook offers a state-of the art guide to the science, practice and value of urban ecology.

Children, Youth and the City argues that young people must be recognized as urban social agents in their own right. This informative book deals with complex theoretical arguments and relates key ideas to this topical subject in a clear and coherent manner. The text is enlivened throughout with global case studies, photographs, discussion questions, suggested reading and websites. It is an excellent resource for students of Human Geography, Urban Studies and Childhood Studies.

Detailing the relationships between sexed bodies, sexual subjectivities and forms of intimacy, Cities and Sexualities explores the role of the city in shaping our sexual lives. At the same time, it describes how the actions of urban governors, city planners, the police and judiciary combine to produce cities in which some sexual proclivities and tastes are normalised and others excluded. In so doing, it maps out the diverse sexual landscapes of the city - from spaces of courtship, coupling and cohabitation through to sites of adult entertainment, prostitution, and pornography. Considering both the normative geographies of heterosexuality and monogamy, as well as urban geographies of radical/queer sex, this book provides a unique perspective on the relationship between sex and the city. ]]>Neo-Bohemia, 2e, Book of the Month, November 2011tag:,2011:/articles/1.71032011-11-01T19:07:21Q2011-11-01T19:14:22Q
Richard Lloyd's Neo-Bohemia, 2e anticipates key urban trends at the dawn of the twenty-first century, and shedds light on both the nature of contemporary bohemias and the cities that house them.